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The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur

Edition 4ISBN: 978-1284074482
book The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur cover

The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur

Edition 4ISBN: 978-1284074482
Exercise 41
Suppose a byte-addressable computer using set associative cache has Suppose a byte-addressable computer using set associative cache has   bytes of main memory and a cache of 32 blocks, and each cache block contains 8 bytes. a) If this cache is 2-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache; that is, what are the sizes of the tag, set, and offset fields? b) If this cache is 4-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache? bytes of main memory and a cache of 32 blocks, and each cache block contains 8 bytes.
a) If this cache is 2-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache; that is, what are the sizes of the tag, set, and offset fields?
b) If this cache is 4-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache?
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a) 2-way set associative:
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